After a long cold winter, TV is back! With more new episodes of all our favourite shows cropping up every week, our spirits are higher than they've been in months. Still, there's a very large "BUT" hanging about.
Our shows are back, BUT, they've all been moved around and a great many of them are now appearing on the same nights! I'll allow that this whole rant might just because this is the first time that my favourite shows are suddenly all scheduled at the same time... it's possible that other people have had this happen before. Still, I'm sure I'm not alone.
So far, this is how my week is shaping up:
Monday:
8pm - Bones, Gossip Girl
8:30pm - How I Met Your Mother
9pm - One Tree Hill, House
9:30pm - Samantha Who?
Thursday:
8pm - Ugly Betty
9pm - The Office, Grey's Anatomy (whose brilliant idea was this???)
9:30pm - Scrubs
10pm - Lost
Sunday:
9pm - The Tudors, Desperate Housewives
10pm - Brothers and Sisters
... and nothing the rest of the week! What is going on in the minds of TV producers? Is it really in their best interest to have all the big shows competing with each other for viewers? Personally, I think it's a whole lot of craziness.
I would protest or something, but it's a lot easier to just watch half the shows online. Serves the networks right for slotting all the shows at the same times anyway. Although it certainly seems ironic considering the reason for the strike in the first place.
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should this be in the tv spot?
For those who do not have Tivo or Fanpop, my condolences.
But such is the Facts of Life (ooh, what a classic show that turned out to be!)
EDIT: Debs, do you happen to know who owns BBC and ITV?
Oh and what happened to the poor VCR in the U.S?? lol, or recordable DVD's...silly americans
i feel a bit silly about this now. i'm not sure how i made it through the last 22 and a half years never noticing this phenomenon.. but judging from the ratings i'm getting on this soapbox, apparently everyone else already knew.
but I'm stuck in the Netherlands so it doesn't really matter for me, fortunately, I have my laptop, fanpop, and a great video site, so the first thing that I'm gonna do, Friday, when I get home, watch the Office, Scrubs and Lost!
* DVD players don't have a record button, but DVD recorders do. They're not very popular, though, in comparison to DVRs like TiVo and the like, so there aren't that many on the market.
* More to the topic (sorry about that): TV in the states is all commercial enterprise; it's not government run like the BBC. So they all feel the need to compete with one another to get the advertising money (which is what makes all broadcast network TV run in the US - as well as many cable networks). Being tangentially connected to "the biz" (through film, though, not TV), I used to subscribe to the "Hollywood Reporter", which is one of the big trade magazines. Among other things, the magazine reports on the TV ratings results for each day of the week. These statistics show that more people watch TV on Thursday nights during "prime time" than any other night of the week, so that's the big slot for advertising competition. Of course, being statistics, you need to take them with a salt lick - after more than 20 years of high ratings shows aired on Thursday nights, an entire generation has grown up with the expectation that Thursday is "TV night", so you have to wonder "which came first: the current shows, or the audience?"
I wouldn't take the ratings on this article to necessarily indicate that people didn't find it useful; I think some people rated before it was moved to the TV spot rather than wait. I don't know if that's encouraging to you or not, but I hoped it would be. I like your article.
I guess a lot of it is a matter of taste. Sometimes it seems like years can go by before you find shows you really get addicted to, and in the US there is that big competition (dumb as we may think it is).
I think there may be some overlaps with shows I like, but thank goodness I still have two functional VCR's, and the ability to zip past the commercials while watching the shows I taped.
and harold bbc not compete? saturday night tv has been competing gameshows off one another since the itv was created (i don't really watch gameshows so i don't care)
they especially should be competing at the moment as there is a lot of debate over weather tv licenses are necessary and weather the bcc should be private or not, however the bbc and itv don't compete as much over shows that seem to be way more popular in the us they compete against each other's soaps, games shows, breakfast programs and the kids slots so the shows mentioned above arn't really a issue
Man that burned me.
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